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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2014
Opower, Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Joanna Kochaniak, Needham, MA (US);
Arhan Gunel, Alexandria, VA (US);
Rajesh Nerlikar, Arlington, VA (US);
Yoni Ben-Meshulam, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jan Rubio, Arlington, VA (US);
Anton Vattay, Herndon, VA (US);
Randall Benjamin Siemon, Falls Church, VA (US);
Erik Shilts, San Francisco, CA (US);
OPOWER, INC., Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
A residential home characteristics inferring method and system that receives information about energy usage by an energy user, determines using a processor and the received information about energy usage average daily usage during a heating season and average daily usage during a shoulder season, and identifies the fuel type used for heating by the energy user using the determined average daily usage during the heating season and the determined average daily usage during the shoulder season.